Hannah Arendt

Films will be shown in McVitty Auditorium, Sprowls Hall, at 5:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

All showings are free. Films will be in their original language, with English subtitles.

Date

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Country

Germany

Language

German

Description

In the award-winning Hannah Arendt, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams
with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, Rosa Luxemburg) for a brilliant
new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist.
Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in the New Yorker—controversial
both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils—introduced her
now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Using footage from the actual
Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta
beautifully turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive,
dramatic cinema. An official selection at the Toronto International and New
York Jewish film festivals, Hannah
Arendt also co-stars Klaus
Pohl as philosopher Martin Heidegger, Nicolas Woodeson as New Yorker editor William Shawn, and two-time
Oscar nominee Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs) as novelist Mary McCarthy.